I remember being on some SF forum a few years ago when people were asking why one of the networks wouldn't try this given the huge number of stories out there that could be filmed. So somebody must have listened to the fans at some point.

The third installment is "Jerry Was a Man" (SATURDAY, AUGUST 18), featuring Anne Heche and Malcolm McDowell. Michael Tolkin ("The Player," "The Rapture," "The Burning Season") directs from a script he wrote based on the classic Robert Heinlein story.

to this:

The series concludes with "The Discarded" (SATURDAY, AUGUST 25), based on the short story by seven-time Hugo Award winner, three-time Nebula Award winner and Science Fiction Grand Master Laureate Harlan Ellison.

(Emphasis mine)

Wow. Gush much?

I mean I like Harlan as much as the next guy (though probably not nearly as much as Harlan likes Harlan) but there is a bit of a disparity in the acknowledgement of these two authors, both of whom are extremely accomplished.

I know, I read too much into things, but it kinda jumped out at me.

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The series concludes with "The Discarded" (SATURDAY, AUGUST 25), based on the short story by seven-time Hugo Award winner, three-time Nebula Award winner and Science Fiction Grand Master Laureate Harlan Ellison.

The sum of my knowledge of Harlan Ellison basically comes from when he was hosting Sci-Fi Channel's The Prisoner marathon, a little over 10 years ago. So basically all I know about him is that he hates the phrase "sci fi" and won't say it out loud.

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Harlan is pretty funny in his tantrums, one time he was insulted that he was in the same room as the Penny Arcade guys mere "comic authors". Then Gabe said he really liked that Star Wars episode he wrote, which is double insulting because he wrote a Star Trek episode and he hates to be reminded that he actually wrote an episode of a television show and then Gabe pretends to get the name wrong. I think he left the room at that point.

This could be pretty cool, Sam Watterson is in one of them so at least there's that. And Harlan did write the script for his own episode. Going to have to check this out.

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I always think of him as one of those writers who were part of SF when it started getting taken way seriously by the counter-culture types in the 1960s. If people start kissing your ass, calling you a world-changing genius, you often turn into an a-hole. I guess he never grew out of that.

Ellison used to have a bit section on the scifi channels "Scifi Buzz." It was five minutes of him ranting about...anything. Nothing was beyond his contempt. He would even vent about science fiction fans. Yes, he's not above biting the hand that feeds him.

The third installment is "Jerry Was a Man" (SATURDAY, AUGUST 18), featuring Anne Heche and Malcolm McDowell. Michael Tolkin ("The Player," "The Rapture," "The Burning Season") directs from a script he wrote based on the classic Robert Heinlein story.

to this:

The series concludes with "The Discarded" (SATURDAY, AUGUST 25), based on the short story by seven-time Hugo Award winner, three-time Nebula Award winner and Science Fiction Grand Master Laureate Harlan Ellison.

(Emphasis mine)

Wow. Gush much?

I mean I like Harlan as much as the next guy (though probably not nearly as much as Harlan likes Harlan) but there is a bit of a disparity in the acknowledgement of these two authors, both of whom are extremely accomplished.

I know, I read too much into things, but it kinda jumped out at me.

It could also be that regular folks are more likely to recognize Heinlein's name without any need to be told he was great. Ellison, on the other hand... *shrug*

Hypatian wrote:

Words... are a big deal.

Enix wrote:

The only way writers are going to get better is if they get some decent damned editing.

But "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Have Space Suit, Will Travel" will both trigger some sort of response usually, and there are a couple other titles (or "TANSTAAFL") that folks might recognize. What's Harlan done that everyone's heard of?

I'm not married to this idea, but I think it's possible that when they put the marketing together they thought that lots of folks would say, "Who the [fudge] is Harlan Ellison (and why does he deserve to be billed with Heinlein)?"

Hypatian wrote:

Words... are a big deal.

Enix wrote:

The only way writers are going to get better is if they get some decent damned editing.

Harlan is pretty funny in his tantrums, one time he was insulted that he was in the same room as the Penny Arcade guys mere "comic authors". Then Gabe said he really liked that Star Wars episode he wrote, which is double insulting because he wrote a Star Trek episode and he hates to be reminded that he actually wrote an episode of a television show and then Gabe pretends to get the name wrong. I think he left the room at that point.

sh*t, that's where I'd heard his name before! Ellison writes a very complimentary intro to one of the Sandman trade paperbacks, which I am just now getting around to reading (top notch, btw. Unf*ckingbelieveable by comic standards). Kind of ironic that the only other place I'd heard his name that "stuck" was in association with another comic.

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That second ep was just Bad with a capital B. I stand by my original statement. I mean, regardless of whether or not you are anti-, pro-, or neutral- war, that episode was laughably bad. Was that end dialog by the president written by the same 11 year old who wrote the end dialog by the vice-president in Day After Tomorrow?